« Chris Stills at DonorsChoose benefit | Main | If WiFi is outlawed, only outlaws will use WiFi » Dr. Frankenstein, I presume?DNA is code, and where there's code, there's bound to be hackers. Welcome to the new world of programmable biology. [Link] But SynBio engineers think they can take what we know and design and construct novel forms of life that are programmed to do practical things that couldn't otherwise be done. "We can now regard cells as 'programmable matter'," says Ron Weiss, a Princeton computer scientist who now writes genetic software for cells. Weiss is convinced that he will soon be able to "program cell behaviors as easily as we program computers." jon posted this at 9:29 AM |
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